CHICAGO (WLS) -- This week on Windy City Weekend, Grammy Award-winning poet, J. Ivy, stopped by to chat about his recent success and to perform "I See You" from his latest spoken word album "The Poet ...
BUEA, Cameroon — A woman cried out upon seeing a sheet-covered form on a stretcher. As volunteers wheeled it onto the stage, Boris Taleabong Alemnge recited a poem whose title spoke the unspoken: ...
Mack Wilberg, The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square music director, Derrick Porter, “Music & the Spoken Word” executive producer and host, and Michael O. Leavitt, The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square ...
In the wake of Malcolm X’s assassination in the winter of 1965, Black and brown poets like Amiri Baraka, Miguel Algarin, and Sonia Sanchez consciously rejected effete paper poems for those that sought ...
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Malcolm-Jamal Warner about his Grammy nomination for best spoken word poetry album and the inspiration behind it. There's a new category in this year's Grammy Awards ...
Caleb Rainey, a spoken word poet known as "The Negro Artist," performs at the newly-formed House of Words event for poets and other performing artists on Nov. 21 in Iowa City. (Elijah Decious/The ...
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From ancient Greek soapbox soliloquies to viral TikTok videos of poetry slams, spoken word has always charged language with kinetic immediacy. Encompassing a unique blend of honesty and an engaging ...
Three poets compete in the finals of the "Spoken Word to Go Go" competition. Host Felicia Curry visits the 31st Annual Barbecue Festival in downtown D.C. to take in a spoken word competition called ...
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